Landlords, BIG and small...Here's a question for you.How many minutes/hours do you spend every month on average doing all of the following: (per property)1. Calling your Operating team - Property Manager, leasing agen...

If you are trying to legalize it long-term you would have to prove it was used in that manner for a specified number of years.

Vacant building is tough for them to re-let or sell.

I live in LA and the housing market is very tough out here.

@Cindy Gonzalez - NYC is a very tough place to house hack.

I’ve looked on some apps, but they seem tough to find.

.This is going to be hard on the bigger operators with very large apartment complexes in Oakland--I wouldn't want to buy a Rent Roll in a Class A, B or C area consisting of unknown cut throats and tough to deal with residents.Plus I wouldn't want to have my property managers quit due to not being able to deal with hard to handle types. 

Spreadsheets will only take you so far, execution needs to be part of the calculation, and that is a variable that’s tough to quantify.  

The difference in price is anywhere between 15-25K and as a new guy its tough to know if the extra money will translate into renters!

In my case, I stood firm, the seller attorney finally gave in, practically begged if his client could get half his money back after talking tough and nasty over three calls, and I hung up on him.